Anthropic calls for global freeze in AI development (telegraph.co.uk)

Aren't they leading the AI development themselves?

So they'll stop now? Doesn't make sense

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409735

Desperate slithering snake fuck is what he is. First it wad 50% of jobs gone, then software engineering dead and now this spiel.

This seems to me like a strategy to keep pushing peoples belief in the power of AI therefore making their company more valuable (just before the IPO). They want us scared of AI because that makes them more powerful.